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Crazy idea, Google buys the third party apps, keeps them running and pays the difference. Maybe requires an email to email a newsletter every month and monetize

• brucethemoose2 3y ago
  They would probably wait for the IPO to fizzle out at least.
  • hsjqllzlfkf 3y ago
    "This sounds like a brilliant idea at first, but is it? My guess is that the more obvious it becomes that the IPO is a failure, the more the reddit execs press hard on its enshitiffication. My guess is waiting for the IPO to fizzle might be too late. Instead I think a better long term approach would be buy reddit now, remove all ads, fix the useability issues"... ... is what I would say if I believed that google was able to run a social product, which I don't think.
    • brucethemoose2 3y ago
      Oh yeah, its a terrible idea, but waiting is what Google would do... And they would certainly fumble it either way.
    • LegitShady 3y ago
      Alternately you realize that selling a shitty company to another shitty company doesn’t suddenly create gold. Google doesn’t buy things to remove ads, they exist to put ads in places. It’s their primary business. The shittiness of reddit should be a signal for others to start looking to replace them. Then reddit has to compete against something. Currently their only competition more or less is discord and I don’t think its a good ecosystem to replace reddit either. After digg there was reddit. There needs to be a different site to compete and force reddit to either fix its corporate culture or slowly kill it off by offering a better experience. Hoping for corpo google to come in and fix things is a joke.